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V -J. A.,& P HQ MARSHALL. BAND CUTTERAND FEEDER FOR THRASHING MACHINES No. 292,667. I Patented Jan. 29, 18,84.

- 'WITNESSES I INVENTORS s W 9%. v v ATTORNEYS N PEIER S. Pnolwlilhugnphan Washinghm. D. c,

j UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH A. MARSHALL AND FLAVIUS H. MARSHALL, OF DARLINGT ORVIND.

BAND-CUTTER AND FEEDER FOR THRASHlNG-MACHENES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 292,667,:lated January 29, 1884.

I Application filed September 17, ISSB. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J osnrn A. DIARSHALL and FLAVIUS H. MARsnALL, citizens of the United States, residing at Darlington, in the county of Montgomery and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Band-Cutters and Feeders for Thrashing-Maehines; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to'the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of this invention, and is a top view. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section.

This invention has relation to band 1 cutters and feeders for thrashing-machines; and it consists in the novel construction of devices, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

Referring by letters to the accompanying drawings, a designates the front end of a thrashing-machine, a portion of the thrashing-maehine being sufficient to illustrate our improvements.

b is the cylinder-shaft, with wide pulley c at one end and narrow pulley d at the other end, and c is the cylinder of the machine. A revolving feeder or shaker, f, has its bearings in the front ends of the arms 9 g, hinged or pivoted to the sides of the inclined chute h, over which the grain is fed to the cylinder, and its journals also pass through the inner projecting ends of the side rails, i i, of the sheaf-carrier frame It, whereby this frame 70 is hinged on the journals of the feeder or shaker. The feeder or shaker has two or three striking edges, Z, as may be desired, and its shaft Z is provided with plain pulleys m m outside of the hinged arms 9 g, and a grooved pulley, m next to the pulley m. V

n designates the endless sheaf carrying apron, mounted on two rollers, o 0, j ournaled in the side rails, i i, of the carrier-frame 7. which has a bearing-board, p, for the endshaft if of the band-cutter is rectangular in cross-section between its bearing-points, and its extreme end on the side next the grooved pulley m is also rectangular, but smaller in cross-section, and receives a small grooved pulley, c, which is connected by a crossed 'band', '0, to the larger grooved pulley, m, on

the feeder-shaft. An endless belt, 12, connects the pulley m on the feeder-shaft with the pulley don the cylinder-shaft. The knives w of the band-cutter are fiat pointed blades, convex on the cutting-edge and concave 011 the opposite edge. The cutters may be circular disks and have a continuous cuttingedge. The knives w are set in the shaft zigzag or staggered, so that it will be impossible for a sheaf or bundle to pass under the band-cutter without having its band out. Vhcn the sheaf passes from the carrier under the cutter and onto the revolving feeder, it will be spread out upon the inclined chute, and will be fed evenly and uniformly to the cylinder.

.IW'hen the band-cutter and feeder is not in use, or when the machine is being moved, it may be turned back upon the thrashing-machine by reason of its hinged arms and hinged side rails. It is obvious that, instead of being hinged to the front of the machine, it may be hinged to either side at the front.

A band-cutter and feeder of this construe tion is cheap, simple, and light, and is not likely to get out of order. on top of the machine when not in use, and is therefore convenient in this particular.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, i si In a hand-cutter and feeder for thrashing- It may be folded machines, the combination, with the hinged carrier-frame, the rotary band-cutter 'u, the endless apron, the rotary feeder or shaker f, having its hearings in the projecting ends of the side rails of the carrier-frame, the short arms 9, the inclined chute and operating} meehnnism, substantially as specified. 1

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH A. MARSHALL. FLAVIUS H. MARSHALL. \Vitnesses:

F. W. CAMPBELL, \V. \V. (flnuinnns. 

